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Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation
Payroll Reporting in India – A Formal Employment Perspective
The National Statistical Office , Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has released the press note on Employment Outlook of the country covering the period September, 2017 to September, 2019, based on the administrative records available with selected government agencies to assess the progress in certain dimensions.A detailed note is annexed.
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Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment
Rehabilitation of Beggars
The subject matter of "Relief of the disabled and unemployable" is a State subject as per entry No. 9 of State List in the 7th Schedule of the Constitution of India. The States are responsible for taking necessary preventive and rehabilitative steps. However, during the year 2017-18 and 2018-19 an amount of Rs. 1.00 crore and Rs. 50 lakh respectively was released to National Backward Classes Finance Development Corporation for skill development training of members of beggar community. During the current financial year 2019-20, an amount of Rs. 1.00 crore has been released to National Institute of Social Defence  for Empowerment and Rehabilitation of Beggars  under Integrated Programme for Rehabilitation of Beggars during F.Y. 2019-20.
As per Census 2011, the total No. of beggars in Delhi are 2187. The male beggars are 1343 and the female beggars are 844.
This information was given by Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Shri Rattan Lal Kataria in a written reply in Lok Sabha today.
Ministry of Defence
IAF Participation in EX Desert FLAG VI
Ex Desert Flag is an annual multi-national large force employment warfare exercise hosted by the United Arab Emirates Air Force. The Indian Air Force is participating for the first time in Exercise Desert Flag-VI along with air forces of United Arab Emirates, United States of America, France, Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Bahrain. The exercise is scheduled from 03 Mar 21 to 27 Mar 21 at Al-Dhafra airbase, UAE.
The IAF is participating with six Su-30 MKI, two C-17 and one IL-78 tanker aircraft. C-17 Globemaster will provide support for induction/ de-induction of the IAF contingent. Su-30 MKI aircraft will undertake long range ferry, routing direct from India to the exercise area with aerial refueling support from IL-78 tanker aircraft. The aim of the exercise is to provide operational exposure to the participating forces while training them to undertake simulated air combat operations in a controlled environment. The participating forces will get an opportunity to enhance their operational capabilities along with mutual exchange of best practices.
The large-scale exercise involving diverse fighter aircraft from across the globe will provide the participating forces, including IAF, a unique opportunity to exhchange knowledge, experience, enhance operational capabilities and interoperability. Exercising and interaction with the participating nations in a dynamic and realstic warfare environment will also contribute to strengthen international relations.
Over the last decade, IAF has regularly hosted and participated in multi-national operational exercises, wherin collaborative engagements are undertaken amongst the best air forces of the world.
Department of Atomic Energy
Nuclear Plant Expansion Programme
Finance Minister’s budget speech in Lok Sabha on 29.02.2016 for 2016-17 budget included the following reference to nuclear energy:
“In the power sector, we need to diversify the sources of power generation for long term stability. Government is drawing up a comprehensive plan, spanning next 15 to 20 years, to augment the investment in nuclear power generation. Budgetary allocation up to Rs 3,000 crore per annum, together with public sector investments, will be leveraged to facilitate the required investment for this purpose.”
To meet the large equity requirements involved in implementation of the planned nuclear power expansion programme, formation of Joint Ventures  of Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited  with other PSUs was contemplated. In this context, NPCIL entered into Joint Ventures  with Public Sector Undertakings NTPC Limited, Indian Oil Corporation Limited and National Aluminium Company Limited . The Government also brought an Amendment of the Atomic Energy Act to enable Joint Ventures of Public Sector Companies to set up nuclear power projects.
The equity funding of the projects presently under construction and projects whose administrative approval and financial sanction is available, have been tied up.
This information was provided by the Union Minister of State  Development of North-Eastern Region , MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh in written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today.
Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
Union Minister Shri Vijay Goel and Wrestler Shakshi Malik Flag off 7th Slum Yuva Daud
Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports shri Vijay Goel today flagged off the 7th Slum Yuva Daud with Ramesh Bidhuri, MP and Olympic medalist ace wrestler Sakshi Malik.
Today’s Daud started from Tughlakabad Fort village and ended at Karni Singh Shooting Range. More than 3000 youth from Delhi slums participated in it. Addressing the participants shri Goel said, that This is not just any other run but we are running for a better tomorrow, a ‘New India’ where each youngster is a capable being and sports being one field in which we must grow big and powerful. The Minister also interacted with the participants via quiz contest and songs etc. He asked them to retain their shirts, medals and certificates as these would help them gain access to a mega Programme being planned with all the participants of 11Slum Runs.
Olympic medal winner wrestler Sakshi Malik urged the youth to participate in sporting activities and promote healthy living and cited sports and youth as two pillars of India’s greatness. Sakshi Malik gave a thumbs up to the Sports Ministry’s initiative of Slum Yuva Daud and called it a ‘great way” to tap young talent.
Shri Ramesh Bidhuri said, such sporting events promote unity among youth and encourage them to take up sports and other constructive activities. The Slum Yuva Daud is part of the Adopt Slum Campaign initiated by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan which aims at highlighting the government’s pro-people schemes among masses. A total 11 Slum Yuva Runs have been planned out of which 7 have already been completed successfully with mass participation.
The 8th Slum Yuva Daud is scheduled for 15 July, 2017.
Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
Maharashtra and Goa use popular performing arts and folk media for COVID vaccination advocacy
Now, that India has approved COVID-19 vaccination for everyone 45 years and older, Centre and State Governments are using innovative approaches to scale up advocacy to address the mixed challenge of vaccine eagerness and hesitancy among communities.
Maharashtra and Goa have chosen to take the creative route to ensure the key messages are shared using popular art forms to find resonance among local communities. Cultural troupes have been deployed to perform street plays in local languages to get advocacy messages at 11,400 strategic locations across 36 districts of Maharashtra and 2 in Goa through the month of February to May 2021 in a unique outreach advocacy programme.
The collaborative campaign has deployed 89 empanelled performing troupes and 16 vans -- 15 in Maharashtra and 1 in Goa states -- equipped with LED panels and audio announcement systems for the dissemination of COVID-19 information in regional languages and local dialects.
The script reiterates updated information about the disease, COVID-19 appropriate behaviours, and COVID19 vaccination to address concerns and counter infodemics that spread misinformation and fuel vaccine hesitancy.
Among the spectators at the Office of District Collector Thane is Mr Rajesh Arjun Dive, who was visiting from Nasik for personal work. “After the lockdown was lifted, I became careless about frequent hand-washing and social-distancing. Watching the play reminded me how important it is to follow these practices in my daily routine. My family members and I are eager to get vaccinated whenever the COVID-19 shot is available for the general population,” said Mr Dive.
This collaborative advocacy campaign is being run by the Regional Outreach Bureau  under Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, in partnership with Public Health Department of Government of Maharashtra, WHO Country Office for India, and UNICEF.
The WHO-National Public Health Surveillance Programme  is reviewing the technical contents of script and supporting capacity building of cultural troops with relevant and updated information on the disease and the available vaccines. The NPSP team is also assisting in the identification of key strategic places to halt vans for performances and LED display to maximise campaign impact and reach.
WHO is also supporting the government in impact assessment of the activities in selected districts to document the effort and help build replicable models for other health advocacy campaigns.
Ministry of Electronics & IT
Government of India launches ArogyaSetu App to track Covid 19 infection
The Government of India today launched a mobile app ArogyaSetu developed in public-private partnership to bring the people of India together in a resolute fight against COVID-19.
The App, called ‘AarogyaSetu’ joins Digital India for the health and well-being of every Indian. It will enable people to assess themselves the risk of their catching the Corona Virus infection. It will calculate this based on their interaction with others, using cutting edge Bluetooth technology, algorithms and artificial intelligence.
Once installed in a smart phone through an easy and user-friendly process, the app detects other devices with AarogyaSetu installed that come in the proximity of that phone. The app can then calculate the risk of infection based on sophisticated parameters if any of these contacts has tested positive.
The personal data collected by the App is encrypted using state-of-the-art technology and stays secure on the phone till it is needed for facilitating medical intervention.
Available in 11 languages, the App is ready for pan-India use from day-1 and has highly scalable architecture.
Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
Ganga Praharis to Boost Bio-Diversity conservation to educate, motivate and ensure protection of aquatic species of river Ganga
Around 210 Sensitization Programs, Village Level Meetings, Trainings and Workshops already conducted
A new grassroot-level volunteer workforce is out there to protect the bio-diversity of river Ganga called Ganga Praharis. A group of 427 trained volunteers are reaching to each and every house in areas along river Ganga to educate them about the importance of protecting river’s bio-diversity. They are spread over Ganga basin states of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar and West Bengal.
Roped-in by Wildlife Institute of India , Dehradun as part of the “Biodiversity Conservation and Ganga Rejuvenation” project being sponsored by National Mission for Clean Ganga  under the aegis of the Namami Gange programme, these Ganga Praharis are well trained in ecological monitoring of Ganga aqua life, plantation techniques, awareness creation and community mobilization. They were trained through a series of national, state and site level workshops in diverse skills such as ecological surveys, rescue and rehabilitation of aquatic species, awareness meetings, social interactions and green livelihood skills.
The Ganga Praharis will be linked to various local environmental authorities, non-governmental stakeholders in their respective states and various other national, academic and research institutions for their capacity development.
Not only do these Ganga Praharis performing the task of conserving the deteriorating biodiversity of river Ganga, they are also motivating other people to spread the clean Ganga message, thus, contributing in making clean Ganga mission a mass movement.
The Ganga Praharis will be the role models in inspiring other members of the community to join hands in the efforts for conservation of the biodiversity of river Ganga. Thus, each Prahari shall work on the model of ‘Each One Make Ten’.
Ganga Praharis of the five main stem Ganga basin states will be linked through mobile applications such as Bhuvan Ganga app, my gov app and Swachhta app thereby creating a broad network among them.
One national level training program was conducted recently at Rishikesh for Ganga Praharis from all five main stem Ganga basin states. The Praharis were imparted training on biodiversity, solid waste management, community engagement and cleanliness.
Three livelihood centres have been established in villages around Varanasi . Ganga Praharis particularly women are being imparted trainings in these centres.
Some of the activities that Ganga Praharis are regularly involved in are Shram Daan, Ghat Cleaning, Awareness Campaigns, Plantation Drives and coordination with local administration. Ganga Praharis are playing a crucial role in reporting and rescuing of aquatic wildlife in distress, reporting of illegal activities like poaching etc.
Finance Commission
The Finance Commission to visit Meghalaya
The Fifteenth Finance Commission will be visiting the State of Meghalaya from 3-5 June, 2019 for the purpose of a reviewing different aspects of the state’s finance prior to making its recommendations to the Union Government for financial devolution.
During the course of its visit in the State, the Commission headed by its Chairman Shri N.K. Singh and including Members Shri A.N. Jha, Dr. Ashok Lahiri, Dr. Anoop Singh, Prof. Ramesh Chand and senior Officers will hold meetings with the Chief Minister and his Cabinet Ministers along with Senior Officers of Meghalaya Government. The Commission will also separately meet representatives of Rural Local Bodies, Representatives of Urban Local Bodies, Representatives of Trade and Industry Bodies of Meghalaya. The Commission will also meet the Representatives of the political parties of the State. Meetings will also be held with the Women Self Help Groups and the Aqua Entrepreneurs supported by the Meghalaya State Aqaculture Mission . The Commission will also inspect MNREGS works in the State and interact with Members of the Village Employment Councils . The Commission is scheduled to visit the Hortihub of Meghalaya.
The Meghalaya Government has already submitted its Memorandum to the Fifteenth Finance Commission. The Commission has also received a detailed presentation from the Principal Accountant General  of Meghalaya on the Finances of the State Government.
Ministry of Women and Child Development
POSHAN Tracker Application
POSHAN Abhiyaan aims to reduce malnutrition in the country in a phased manner, through a life cycle approach, by adopting a synergised and result oriented approach. The Programme strives to induce behavioural change through nutrition centric Jan Andolans in the form of Poshan Pakhwadas and Poshan Maahs. The target for reducing the prevalence of stunting among children under 5 years is by 2% per annum and anemia among children under 5 years is by 3% per annum.
Poshan Tracker management application provides a 360-degree view of the activities of the Anganwadi Centre , service deliveries of Anganwadi Workers  and complete beneficiary management for pregnant women, lactating mothers and children. Simultaneously, the mobile application also digitizes and automates physical registers used by AWWs that helps improving their quality of work.
The AWWs are being provided Smartphones procured through Government e-Market  for efficient service delivery. A total of 8.66 lakhs Smartphones have been procured by 32 States/UTs. Further, AWW and Lady Supervisor  are being provided ₹200/- per month for recharging of smart phones.
Government has organised training of AWWs to facilitate use of Poshan Tracker by them and till date, more than 6.5 lakhs AWWs have been trained. Further, Ministry has sent a communication dated 2nd February 2021 to States/UTs regarding appointment of Nodal Person for providing technical support and resolving any issue about downloading the new Poshan Tracker application and its functioning.
This information was given by the Union Minister for Women and Child Development, Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani, in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.
PIB Headquarters
APPAREL TRAINING AND DESIGN CENTRE  PROVIDING EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES TO THE UNEMPLOYED YOUTH IN TELANGANA STATE
Apparel Training and Design Centre  in collaboration with EGMM, Telangana State Government are providing a great opportunity for unemployed youth in Telangana state, ATDC- Hyderabad said in a press release.
Under the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana  of the Ministry of Rural Development, ATDC is offering free residential training for students who have passed Intermediate in any stream. The course name is Industrial Engineer Executive and the duration of the course will be about 6 months. The course will be conducted at ATDC, Hyderabad.
This is a junior management course and the candidates will be placed in leading readymade garment manufacturing companies after successful training.
We have so far trained more than 100 students from various districts of Telangana. The students of the 1st batch are placed as Quality Assessors and Industrial Engineers in leading garment manufacturing companies at Bengaluru with a starting salary of over Rs 15,000 month.
The candidates belonging to any district in Telangana, particularly rural areas are eligible for training free of cost with residential accommodation including food. The candidates will be placed in the apparel industry after training. The other conditions of eligibility are-
Education- Minimum Intermediate pass
Age- 18-25 years 
Income- BPL Ration Card 
Aadhar Card
Domicile/ Residential Certificate.
Admissions open for 4th & 5th Batch from 6th Nov 2019 to 20th Nov 2019.
Interested candidates can find details from: ATDC, Survey No. 64, Opp. Hotel Avasa, Madhapur, Hitech City, Hyderabad-81, Contact No. 040-23112155/56, 9912108844, 9885089801, 9611238944.
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Dry run for COVID-19 Vaccination successfully conducted in Four states
Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare conducted a two-day dry run for activities entailed in Covid-19 vaccination in four states Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Punjab and Gujarat on 28th and 29th December 2020.
Backed with the experience of rolling out Universal Immunization Programme  and conducting nationwide multiple wide-range injectable vaccination campaigns such as measles-rubella  and adult Japanese Encephalitis  campaign, required steps are being undertaken to vaccinate priority population groups such as Health care workers, Frontline workers and people above 50 years for Covid-19.
The dry run exercise is aimed at end-to-end testing of COVID-19 vaccination process and will include planning & preparations as per the Operational Guidelines; creation of facilities & users on Co-WIN application, session site creation & mapping of sites, Health Care Workers  data upload, receipt of vaccines and vaccine allocationby the district, session planning, deployment of vaccination team, logistics mobilization at session site, mock drill of conducting vaccination and reporting and review meetings at block, districts and state level. The objective of dry the run is also to undertake and confirm field implementation of IT platform Co-WIN and guide way forward prior to actual implementation.
District Collector with engagement of district and block task force were made responsible for conducting the dry run and it was expected to provide insights on any gaps or bottle-necks during actual conduct of vaccination.
The two-day end-to-end dry run was undertaken in Krishna district in Andhra Pradesh, Rajkot and Gandhinagar in Gujarat, Ludhiana and Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar  in Punjab and Sonitpur and Nalbari districts in Assam.
Specific teams were formed for various tasks by the district administration and activities like uploading of dummy beneficiary’s data, session site creation, vaccine allocation, communication vaccination details to vaccinators& beneficiaries, beneficiary mobilization were carried out.
Field feedback on the first day of dun run was also reviewed on 29th Dec 2020 through Video conferencing with State & District Programme officers by Joint Secretary . All states expressed satisfaction in terms of the operational approach and use of IT platform to ensure transparency and effective monitoring of vaccination processes expected to cover a large number of people across the country. Additional suggestions on IT platform were also noted for further enhancement of Co-WIN platform.
Detailed insights and feedback so obtained will help enrich the operational guidelines and IT platform and will strengthen the Covid-19 vaccination roll out plan.
Ministry of Defence
Expression of Interest For six P 75 Submarines for Indian Navy
As a major initiative towards ‘Make in India’, the Government immediately on taking over has issued the Expression of Interest for shortlisting of potential Indian Strategic Partners  for “Construction of six Conventional Submarines” for P-75 Project of the Indian Navy on 20 Jun 19. The project cost is about Rs 45,000 Crores. This is the second project being undertaken under the latest Strategic Partnership  Model, with the first being the procurement of 111 Naval Utility Helicopters . This would provide a major boost to the indigenous design and construction capability of submarines in India, in addition to bringing in the latest submarine design and technologies as part of the project. The case was approved by the Defence Acquisition Council on 31 Jan 19. The EoI for shortlisting of Indian Strategic Partners has been uploaded on MoD and Indian Navy websites. The EoI for shortlisting of OEMs will be issued in two weeks.
The SPs in collaboration with OEMs have been mandated to set up dedicated manufacturing lines for these submarines in India and make India the global hub for submarine design and production. All six submarines under this project will be built in India by the selected Indian Strategic Partner in collaboration with the selected OEM. In addition, Indian Navy would have the option to manufacture six more submarines under the project. The project would not only aid in boosting the core submarine/ ship building industry but would also greatly enhance manufacturing/ industrial sector, especially the MSMEs by development of an industrial eco-system for manufacture of associated spares/ systems/ equipment related to submarines.
The potential SPs are expected to respond to the EoI within two months. The Indian companies would be shortlisted based on their capability for integration of system of systems, expertise in shipbuilding domain and the financial strength. The OEMs would be shortlisted primarily based on their submarine design meeting the Indian Navy’s Qualitative Requirements and qualifying the Transfer of Technology and Indigenous Content  criteria.
The overall aim would be to progressively build indigenous capabilities in the private sector to design, develop and manufacture complex weapon systems for the future needs of the Armed Forces. This will be an important step towards meeting broader national objectives, encouraging self reliance and aligning the defence sector with the ‘Make in India’ initiative of the Government.
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